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Team:University of Washington/Safety
From 2008.igem.org
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Project Safety
Our project is currently being reviewed by Environmental Health & Safety's Research and Biological Safety Office.
As a self-assessment, the voluntary safety guidelines proposed at the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA (held in 1975) were considered. Aside from the standard prokaryotic plasmid and bacterial recombinant DNA techniques carried out for our project (and all other iGEM projects), our project requires a unique consideration in that we have facilitated the exchange of genetic material between two species that do not ordinarily have that potential (E. coli and S. cerevisiae). The Summary Statement of the Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA Molecules states
Experiments involving the creation and propagation of recombinant DNA molecules from the DNAs of species that ordinarily do not exchange genetic information, generate novel biotypes. Because such experiments may pose biohazards greater than those associated with the original organisms, they should be performed, at least, in low risk containment facilities.
Not sure what else to say at the moment…. More to come shortly….
